Cassandra Drewett

There are certain records pertaining to this family included in the records of Chester Monthly Meeting, PA from which Newark MM was set off, ca. 1685/1686. Since compiling my Delaware Quaker records, I have found a reference to the :Administration of estate of Cassandra Druet, 4 Mar.1702/3" in the "Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine", vol 20, p. 40.

About the year 1682, several families of Friends arrived and settled on the east side of the Brandywine, in New Castle County, viz., Valentine Hollingsworth, William Stockdale, Thomas Connaway, Adam Sharpley, Morgan Drewitt, Valentine Morgan, Cornelius Empson, and others; and held a 10 meeting for worship. . .

When the Hollingsworth family arrived in Brandywine Hundred, they found at least one Quaker family already living in the area, the family of Morgan and Cassandra Drewett. Originally from the vicinity of London, the Drewetts had been among the group of Quakers who came to Burlington, New Jersey, in 1677 on the ship Kent. This family included an older son, Joseph, who died in 1685 at the age of nineteen years, older daughters Elizabeth and Hannah, and smaller children: Benjamin, Mary, and Sarah. An older woman in the Newark Meeting, Mary Thompson, may have been Cassandra Drewett's mother. The Drewetts had moved across the Delaware River to the vicinity of Marcus Hook in 1678. In 1681 they moved farther south to just above "Boute Creek," within what became the boundary of New Castle County.

Source: http://nc-chap.org/church/quaker/standingDH3crop.pdf